Topic: Names of Things You Never Knew had Names

[laitzu]

Dagdag kaalaman mga espiya. For your information.


AGLET - The plain or ornamental covering on the end of a shoelace.
ARMSAYE - The armhole in clothing.
CHANKING - Spat-out food, such as rinds or pits.
COLUMELLA NASI - The bottom part of the nose between the nostrils.
DRAGÉES - Small beadlike pieces of candy, usually silver-coloured, used for decorating cookies, cakes and sundaes.
FEAT - A dangling curl of hair.
FERRULE - The metal band on a pencil that holds the eraser in place.
HARP - The small metal hoop that supports a lampshade.
HEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER - A 64th note. (A 32nd is a demisemiquaver, and a 16th note is a semiquaver.)
JARNS,
NITTLES,
GRAWLIX,
and QUIMP - Various squiggles used to denote cussing in comic books.
KEEPER - The loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed through the buckle.
KICK or PUNT - The indentation at the bottom of some wine bottles. It gives added strength to the bottle but lessens its holding capacity.
LIRIPIPE - The long tail on a graduate's academic hood.
MINIMUS - The little finger or toe.
NEF - An ornamental stand in the shape of a ship.
OBDORMITION - The numbness caused by pressure on a nerve; when a limb is `asleep'.
OCTOTHORPE - The symbol `#' on a telephone handset. Bell Labs' engineer Don Macpherson created the word in the 1960s by combining octo-, as in eight, with the name of one of his favourite athletes, 1912 Olympic decathlon champion Jim Thorpe.
OPHRYON - The space between the eyebrows on a line with the top of the eye sockets.
PEEN - The end of a hammer head opposite the striking face.
PHOSPHENES - The lights you see when you close your eyes hard. Technically the luminous impressions are due to the excitation of the retina caused by pressure on the eyeball.
PURLICUE - The space between the thumb and extended forefinger.
RASCETA - Creases on the inside of the wrist.
ROWEL - The revolving star on the back of a cowboy's spurs.
SADDLE - The rounded part on the top of a matchbook.
SCROOP - The rustle of silk.
SNORKEL BOX - A mailbox with a protruding receiver to allow people to deposit mail without leaving their cars.
SPRAINTS - Otter dung.
TANG - The projecting prong on a tool or instrument.
WAMBLE - Stomach rumbling.
ZARF - A holder for a handleless coffee cup.

[Arkashia - Lastikman]

nice .. hahaha...

[Vansboy]

TANG - The projecting prong on a tool or instrument.

Other meaning
TANG- my favorite orange juice..
hehehehehe... salamat pare for da info..

[mashedpotato]

amp d ko alam un dati ah?haha 
thanks alot s info tol. 

[The Flash]

wow ha ako rin di ko alam lahat nuon..hehe

[zaraki kenpachi]

BURNIK

[bulba]

thanks for the info bro!

 

[kulas000]

SALAMAT TOL DAMI KO NATUTUNAN BAGO...

[chavit]

tol tanong ko lang kung lam mo tag-alog ng TOOTHPASTE at saka CAKE

[skapinoy]

tuchang-buhok sa ilong
karug-buhok sa belly button

[eM_]

wow,dagdag kaalaman to,tnx for sharing....

[xintensityx]

mc arthur - taeng bumalik sa inidoro matapos itong buhusan o i-flush

[happy_chique]

wow cool, tnx 4 sharin' 

[chilledbodega]

eto sa akin...

soul patch - a small patch of facial hair just below the lower lip and above the chin.

[sweetbayag2]

apikap - buho sa daliri sa paa
atsaka - buhok sa pagitan ng baba at lower lip

[taz31]

aglet - the plastic thingy on the ends of your shoelaces

[pinoyi2]

wow pwede ako magshare dyan...

PATELLA - your knee

HOPSCOTCH - yung larong piko

ANCHOR's HAND - the "&" sign

wala lang share ko lang d naman lahat ng tao may alam nyan e....


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share ko lang po:
the "&" is called ampersand

The ampersand symbol has been found on ancient Roman sources dating to the first century A.D. Marcus Tullius Tiro, Cicero's secretary of 36 years, is credited as its inventor. During this period the symbol was a boxy-looking ligature of the capital letters E and T. Over time the figure became more curved and flowing, until it came to resemble something like the figure above on the right, often called the "italic" ampersand.

By the eighth century AD, Western calligraphy was well developed, particularly in forms such as Uncial, Insular script, and Carolingian minuscule. The calligraphers made extensive use of the ampersand because the condensation of a word into a single character made their work easier. During this time the even more condensed ampersand, shown above on the left, was developed. It is often called the "roman" ampersand.

After the advent of printing in Europe in 1455, printers made extensive use of both the italic and roman ampersands. Every new typeface and font has included its own style of &. Since the ampersand's roots go back to Roman times, many languages that use a variation of the Latin alphabet make use of it.

Historically, & was regarded as the 27th letter of the English alphabet. Until recent times the alphabets used by children terminated not with Z but with & or related typographic symbols. George Eliot refers to this when she has Jacob Storey say, "He thought it (Z) had only been put to finish off th' alphabet like; though ampusand would ha' done as well, for what he could see."

The most likely reason why & was regarded as the 27th letter of the English alphabet is - and like many accounts about the history of punctuation this may be apocryphal - the traditional children's nursery rhyme for learning the alphabet with verbal past tenses (instead of the usual nouns as in "A is for apple, etc") called "A - apple pie". This traditional rhyme reads "A - apple pie. B bit it, C cut it, D dealt it, etc. Of course, when you get to the end of the alphabet it becomes rather difficult to finish, so the standard version said "X, Y, Z and per se and, each had a little piece in their hand". The & sign was added to round off the rhyme (not unlike the lines "Now I know my ABC, next time won't you sing with me?" in the most popular contemporary alphabet song) and the common slurring of the end of the rhyme when spoken quickly or when recited by unlearned people gave rise to the folk usage "ampersand".


"Basta may knowledge may power!" - The Late Ernie Baron

[laitzu]

salamat sa lahat ng nagdagdag ng new info...more knowledge, more power!    sa lahat.

[sweetbayag2]

apikap - buhok sa daliri sa paa.
kangkungkernitz - album ng parokya.  bwahahahaha

[fieldspaniel15]

kepet yung tinantawag nila armpit, hehehehe!!!